Definition of PREDATION. Meaning of PREDATION. Synonyms of PREDATION

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Definition of PREDATION

Predation
Predation Pre*da"tion, n. [L. praedatio, fr. praedari to plunder.] The act of pillaging. --E. Hall.

Meaning of PREDATION from wikipedia

- Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common...
- predation is a form of predation in which predators actively give chase to their prey, either solitarily or as a group. It is an alternate predation strategy...
- Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and sometimes eating of a potential competitor of a different species. This interaction represents a combination...
- The term predation rate refers to the frequency with which an organism captures and consumes its prey in an ecosystem. Coupled with the kill rate, the...
- Egg predation or ovivory is a feeding strategy in many groups of animals (ovivores) in which they consume eggs. Since a fertilized egg represents a complete...
- Look up granivore in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores...
- PMID 12448714. S2CID 20018104. Bauer A, Forchhammer K (May 2021). "Bacterial Predation on Cyanobacteria". Microbial Physiology. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1159/000516427...
- emissions, and the trees became darkened. This led to an increase in bird predation for light-coloured moths, as they no longer blended in as well in their...
- the predation level and other factors. Females of matching body sizes tend to produce more numerous but smaller-sized offspring in high-predation conditions...
- The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that humans...